>From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
>Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:44:46 +0100
>
>En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>:
>
> >
> > I'm still not making myself clear. Too many days since I last slept.
> > I
> > mean the verbs will not permit a seond argument of ANY type. You could
> > not
> > even say "He went to the store," sine NOTHING zipo nada is allowed in
> > that
> > slot. NO arguement of ANY kind, not even in a prepositional phrase.
> > In
> > fact, IIRC, that lang didn't have prepositions. It's been a loooong
> > time
> > sice I worked on it. In Tagolog no verb *needs* two arguments. In my
> > lang
> > no verb was ALLOWED two arguments. In fact you couldn't even have a
> > compound subject.
> >
>
>But a circonstantial complement is not a core argument of the verb! It can
>even
>be considered (as we do in French) not as an argument of the verb at all,
>but
>of the sentence itself. Do you mean a language where you cannot have more
>than
>one verb and one argument per sentence? That doesn't even sound possible to
>me.
Well you could comcine sentences but you must have only one argument per
verb.
>How would you translate: "He went to the store"? "He went. To the store
>went"?
He store went-to was-arrived-at.
>How can a language not accept peripheral complements in sentences? A
>language
>like that couldn't have subordination either...
>
It was probably the weirdest of many weird things born from this strange
little cranium.
adam
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